Using E-prime for Interactive Questionnaire...!!!

[Dilip Kumar]

Hello Group Members,

I was wondering whether it is possible to key in (write) answers to questionnaire in E-prime?

As far as I can think, it can be used for multiple choice question but it doesn't seem possible to write in answers for long questions.

Any comments/ideas will be appreciable.

Best Regards,

Dilip

[David McFarlane]

Dilip,

Yes, possible, but clumsy. As I have said many times on this Group,
unless you really have a reason to collect questionaire answers with
millisecond timing, you might find it better to use some other tool
more suited for questionnaires, e.g., MediaLab from Empirisoft, or
even just some ordinary HTML/CSS/JavaScript (after all, that's how
most of the world already does questionnaires today).

But if you really want to explore this, take a look at the E-Prime
Echo facility, which you may find after pressing the "Advanced..."
button for any input mask. Ultimately, you could even write your own
text editor from scratch by using the Canvas text functions (see the
Canvas topic in the E-Basic Help facility).

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[David McFarlane]

Dilip,

Following on Dave Ruvolo's suggestion, if you do want to reformat
multiple keystroke responses into more useable strings then you might
look at the KeyCodeMap example at http://step.psy.cmu.edu/scripts-plus/ .

-- David McFarlane


At 5/27/2014 03:26 PM Tuesday, David Ruvolo wrote:
>Hi Dilip,
>
>For the last few months, I have used a write-in and multiple choice
>questionnaire. I have the "Echo Display" setting enabled and
>formatted the user-entered data by an in-line script. Otherwise,
>your outputs will log every key pressed. Ex: response = "Yes",
>logged = "{Shift},Y,e,s,{ENTER}"
>
>I have not had any problems with using E-prime as a self-report
>questionnaire and I would imagine going another route may be
>simpler. If you have a simple questionnaire (I have 12 questions)
>and an afternoon free, this could easily be done.
>
>Good luck!
>
>Dave

[Dilip Kumar]

Hi David and Dave,

Thank you for sharing all the information and suggestions. I'll take a closer look into your tips and ideas to see whether it works for us or not.

Yes David, there are other tools specially used for this purpose but I just want to explore what else can be done using E-prime.

Best Regards,

Dilip